Laura Rossi grew up in Devon where she enjoyed a varied musical childhood playing piano, bass, violin and singing in Jazz, Pop and Classical ensembles. She then went on to study composition at Liverpool University and completed her Masters at the London College of Music. She now lives in London where she composes music for film and concert works.

She has written scores for many films including the critically acclaimed 'London to Brighton’ and ‘The Cottage’ directed by Paul Andrew Williams, also the award winning 'Shooting Shona'  directed by Abner and Kamma Pastoll.  Laura has recently scored ‘Broken Lines’ directed by Sallie Aprahamian starring Paul Bettany. She has also written music for television documentaries including 'Marking Time' for ITV, ‘The Cotswold Canals’ presented by Lloyd Grossman for HTV, ‘Forgotten Pilots’ and 'The Real Sir Francis Drake' for Carlton TV.  In addition, Laura has worked for 'The Music Gallery', composing music for adverts.Laura has been writing music for the British Film Institute since 1998 for re-releases of early silent movies. These include the best-selling 'Silent Shakespeare' (seven short films) which she has toured round cinemas performing live with the films at venues including the Barbican, London and the Belfast and Sao Paulo film festivals. Other BFI films Laura has scored are 'Twilight of a Woman's Soul' on the DVD 'Mad Love' (a collection of films by Evgenii Bauer), 'C.O.D.' by Desmond Dickenson and 'Tusalava' by Len Lye on the video 'British Avant Garde vol. 1'.

Laura was also commissioned by the Imperial War Museum to write an orchestral score for 'The Battle of the Ancre' an important historical film from the 1st World War which was performed live with film at the museum. She was subsequently commissioned to write a score for the famous 1916 film 'The Battle of the Somme' which was premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra and received a five star review in the Times. This is to be re-released as a double DVD set along with Laura's score for 'The Battle of the Ancre' later this year.

Laura was a guest speaker at the 2003 'International Conference of Philosophy and Literature' talking about her scores for 'Silent Shakespeare' alongside Leonard Whiting and she was recently chosen to be a judge for best soundtrack at the International festival of Cinema and Technology. In 2003 Laura was awarded ‘Best Film Composer' on a European film making course and she was also chosen for the SPNM project 'Composing for Film' with composer Debbie Wiseman and director Brian Gilbert that culminated in a presentation of her film music at the Royal Festival Hall. Laura also won a competition to write an orchestral score for a film which was performed by the London Musici Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Laura has been commissioned to write numerous chamber and orchestral works including 'Under the Rainbow' - a seven movement orchestral/choral piece commissioned by the NFMS, involving the use of soloists from around the world featuring Chinese Er-hu, Indian Sitar, African drums, Japanese Koto, saxophone, flute and children's choir. Other commissions include ‘Jailhouse Graffiti’ premiered by Ealing Symphony Orchestra at St. John Smith Square, ‘Golden Jubilee’ (a special commission for the Queen’s Jubilee) and ‘A Poor Torn Heart’ for King's Cross Church Festival and ‘The River’ performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall by the Solaris String Quartet. She has also written jazz orchestra works performed at the London Jazz Festival as well as music for dance and music theatre and has had her music for an animation performed live with film by the BBC Concert Orchestra. She has recently written pieces for the LCM percussion and Jazz piano syllabus published by ‘Stainer and Bell’.

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